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Penigma
http://penigma.blogspot.com/
A mystery under a pseudonym; a blog dedicated to the rational discussion of politics and current events
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1924 )
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Friday Fun-Day- More Fiore!
Mark Fiore is both one of the ost astute observers and critics of current affairs, and an extremely entertaining animator. It's Friday -- ENJOY! Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Sex SCARES Tea Partiers and Other Bigots! Apparently No One Ever Explained the...
Two Salon stories caught me by surprise, each trying to outdo the other in maximizing offensive conservative remarks. The first Salon piece was about a nut-job... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 DEBATE, LOVE & SEX, SOCIETY -
The Sadly Silly Alternate Reality That Michele Bachmann Lives In
Put Michele Bachmann's face on a stick, and have fun making up stuff. You can't get goofier than she is. Via City Pages: Michele Bachmann argues anti-gay bill i... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Hooray for First Lady, Michele Obama, (and for Honorary First Lady of France,...
Posted on 27 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Gov. Jan Brewer VETOES Bill By Conservatives, For Conservatives, to Legalize...
The only two things conservatives like MORE than whining they are victims when they are not, is to discriminate against a minority and/or women, and to shoot... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Tim Scannell Trial Update
Tim Scannell, prosecutor and prosecuted for sex crimes with underage girls in northeastern Minnesota, has had his next court date postponed to March 27th. Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Gay Marriage Ban -- Another One Bites the RED RED RED Dust, This Time Bloody...
Another gay marriage ban bites the dust in the deeply red state of Texas. It will be interesting to see what the Attorney General, Greg Abbot, recently seen... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
In Honor of Black History Month -- Calling out the Revisionist History FACT TURD...
Either we have the right falsely claiming credit for human rights because Lincoln was a Republican, back when Republicans - and especially Lincoln - were... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Sincerely Held Beliefs Do Not Define Dsicrimination, and Freedom of Religion Doe...
In a recent interview on MSNBC, actor and gay activist George Takei observed, very fairly, that gay men and women in our military are put in harms way... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Dumb-ass Bigot = Conservative Racist Republican Candidate, Conservative...
The 'N' word used to be common in the deep south; didn't make it any more acceptable than wetback. Here is a turn of phrase that is so common nationwide that... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Whiter Than White Pot John McCain Calling the Obama Kettle Black? John McCain...
John McCain criticized President Obama - AGAIN. He called the President naive, while being consistently wrong on every item of foreign policy in the past five... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Ding Dong, Dangerous GUN NUT IS GONE!
Late breaking update - Mark Kessler is OUT. The man demonstrated everything that is reprehensible, ugly, unprofessional, unsafe, and often just so offensive tha... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Girl Power - Feminism is Still a Force to Be Reckoned With, and a Power in...
I don't usually like to put anything commercial here, but this was worth a revisit in an era when we have popsie embarrassment to her state and to her gender... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Hellow Dumb-bunny Bachmann! The Nation is Ready for a Woman, They Just Don't Wan...
Posted on 23 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
FactCheck.org BUSTS BLACKBURN on Anthropogenic Climate Change!
It's hard to believe the arguments from the right against human-caused catastrophic Climate Change when they themselves neither understand the facts and data,... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
White OUT: Friday Update on the Right Wing Terrorists in Our Region
SFGate had the news this morning - Craig Cobb is going to trial! NO plea deal for him! The deal that the prosecutor had worked out did not sit well with the... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Almost Missed It! It's National Condom Week!
Condoms, Olympics inspired! One of my particular gripes with abstinence only sex-ed is that it deliberately and intentionally misinforms students about the... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Another Friday Fun-Day! Republicans - Lying and Losing. Still. Again.
The radical right has been lying about Obamacare, and with every lie, they get caught lying by fact checkers. Because they are right wing radicals, they... Read more
Posted on 21 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
The MN GOP Is Involved with the MN Radical Religious Right Including a...
This was circulated by the Minnesota Family Council in a recent mass email: This IS a lobbying group and this IS a group which involves itself regarding specifi... Read more
Posted on 20 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Hooray for Beautiful and Talented Women Who Are Also Gifted Intellects in the...
And NONE of them are science deniers, none of them support creationism bogus science, none of them are anthropogenic climate change deniers either. Read more
Posted on 20 February 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY